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Record Nr.

UNINA9910512208903321

Autore

Richardson Riché <1971->

Titolo

Emancipation's daughters : re-imagining black femininity and the national body / / Riché Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-4780-9091-X

1-4780-0991-8

1-4780-1250-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 298 pages : illustrations)

Disciplina

305.48896073

Soggetti

African American women - Political activity - History - 20th century

African American women - Political activity - History - 21st century

African American leadership

Leadership in women - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

An Exemplary American Woman -- Mary McLeod Bethune's "My Last Will and Testament" and Her National Legacy -- From Rosa Parks's Quiet Strength to Memorializing a National Mother -- America's Chief Diplomat: The Politics of Condoleezza Rice from Autobiography to Art and -- Fashion -- First Lady and "Mom-in-Chief": The Voice and Vision of Michelle Obama in the Video South -- Side Girl and in American Grown -- Beyoncé's South and the Birth of a "Formation" Nation

Sommario/riassunto

"Riché Richardson examines how five iconic black women--Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncé--defy racial stereotypes and construct new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States."--